River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-20
INEXPENSIVE LIVING.
How n Healthy Person Can Live and
Grow Fat n Dime Day.

How n Healthy Person Can Live and
Grow Fat n Dime a Day.
At the gathering of scientists in Co
lumbia College a learned professor
fascinated his superintellectual hear
ers by telling them that laboring
man needs daily one-fourth pound
of proteine. one-fourth pound fat, and
pound of carbohydrates" 10 keep
him well and strong If the knowl-
edge-seeking laborer goes TO the store
for his four ounces of protcine his eX-
pertinent will scarcely increase his
faith in the marketing knowledge of
scientists. What the laborer and what
most of us need moro than technical
essays on the Physiological and
Fecundary Economy of Food" is
plain talk about sensible feeding and.
economical marketing.
slow to live and thrive on a dime
per day" may stand as the text for
this talk. 1t certainly can be done,
and. though the experiment may be
uninviiing, it is certain that good
health is nearer akin to the simplest
Now as to the laboring man and his
prOteine. Tell him that three-fourths
of his weight is water. and that to re-
store the days waste he has to take
food, three-fourths of which must be
water. and the remainder fesh-form-
ing, heat-giving and bone-making sub
stances. he will understand the case
better. Give him a table of foods.
analysed 10 show just how much heat
giving. hesh-forming and mineral mat
ter there is in each food. AMI he will
soon take as deep an interest in what
he eats because of its worth to him as
because of its taste. When he finds
Out-as he can in half an hOur-that
only twenty-four parts in every hun
bred of butchers meat count as flesh
formers. the rest being water but Il 1T
from seventy-five TO ninety parts out
of every hundred in dried peas. beans.
oat and wheat meals and cheese are
nutritious. and only ten 10 twenty-five
parts waste water. he from that mo-
ment begins to use his common sense
in feeding as he does in earning his
living. The popular rule is: Never pay
any heed to the feeding value of our
diet; let us cultivate a glorious ig-
norance of the purpose of foods and go
in might and main for palate -ticklers
and dyspepsia
just q fact or two as appetizer
The great Feninsular and Oriental (P.
and o. Steamship Company employ
East Indian coolies TO do the hardest
work on their steamers because they
are stronger, healthier and stand the
climate better than Englishmen. and
because not being meat eaters-their
diet costs only six cents per day.
There are miners in the English coal
pits. the hardest workers in the land,
who have not eaten any kind of meat
for years am not vegetarian, be-
cause / banker after the flesh pots,
and their savory odOrs cast spell
over my innocent soul; yet l expert
mented for one whole year without
tasting flesh or gravy in any form, and
all the time my health was perfect and
my weight increased. The dock por-
tiers of Constantinople carry heavier
burdens-two hundred and fifty pounds
and upward-more easily than the
laborers of England and America. yet
their main diet is bread and figs. and
they are teetotal and vegetarian. The
laborers in Spain live chiefly on bread
and onions. and are marvelOusly
strong.
The flesh-and-bloOd superstition is
baseless. A horse is almost as strong.
swift, healthy and handsome rs two
legged man. and they both have tho
same internal machinery; the one cats
beef and enjoys dyspepsia. the other
avoids it aud fourishes. Ten cents
worth or meat, oatmeal, rice. fruits.
but ermilk. bread. cheese, onions OF
portions of several of these. will enable
man to do his ordinary days work
at least as well as any assortment of
goods he can buy for dollar.
What would be a good diet for those
who do not need to study their purses,
yet who would like simple. healthy
and enjoy able dietary? To such 1
would say drop the heavy meat break
fast right away. Not that meat is bad.
but it is not the best 10 start the day
on. Bread (not the spoiled white
stuff. but the natural dark -colOred
wheat. as ground). tea or cocoa. eggs
and the hundred and one non-flesh
dishes. with little fish, and as much
fruit as you like. That model meal,
as experience will prove.
Talking of fish. the more the better.
Pound for pound it is as nutritious as
flesh. though it dtesn't seem to fill us
so fully, and its chemical value is far
above that of meats When / have
extra hard brain work to do. say an
average Of twelve or fourteen hours
for two or three weeks at a stretch,
knock off meats entirely and eat all
the fish can. Result. perfect health
and strength and no headaches.
For dinner. fish, soups q am not ex-
Guiding meat. though soups can be
made without it that taste just the same
and are quite as good every way). pud-
dings. desserts.
knew an eminent lady who for
forty years had never tasted meat. She
was marvel of mental and physic-
al strength Another author friend
kept his health and his average weight
of one hundred and sixty pounds on
diet that never included meat, the
average cost of his food being only
six cents per day. Another, a we'll
known literary man. who looked as
bcefy as a butcher. was, when / last
met him. in his eighth year of strict
abstinence from flesh. Another
friend. a hard literary worker. has
been practically lifelong vegetarian.
but he looks too shriveled up TO be a
champion specimen. Richmond { Ha.)
Dispatch.
AN INTEREST IN LIFE.